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• a variation of embarkation.

embarcation

American  

[em-bahr-key-shuhn] / ˌɛm bɑrˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. embarkation.

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Other Word Forms

• reembarcation
  noun

Example Sentences

This week the volunteers were packing up for embarcation at Buenaventura.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boat reached the place of embarcation, and we, wandering ghosts, half walked and were half carried into its broad clumsy hulk, and took each his allotted seat in ghostly silence. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William

Among the despatches brought by the auditor is a decree ordering, the embarcation for India and Luçoens of all Castilians, both religious and secular, so that only the original Portuguese citizens shall remain in Machao.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Masulipatam was also a port of embarcation for the East and was connected with Broach by a trade route running through Tagara, now Têr in the Nizam's dominions.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

The idea pleased the Marquise; but who would undertake to discover the fugitive and arrange for her embarcation?

From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]